X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Flaser-9.md;h=38e7b1b7806581aefb0273493ab0d07049024dd9;hp=7964900a03d91f287c51a19ac196f0ea1eb97b05;hb=6edc78b5e7a238c7e22d420fc5bf5942a7fad7ed;hpb=d0de09fbefeb94d815a77a563dae6309ce3c957a diff --git a/content/drafts/laser-9.md b/content/drafts/laser-9.md index 7964900..38e7b1b 100644 --- a/content/drafts/laser-9.md +++ b/content/drafts/laser-9.md @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ Title: Laser 9 -Date: 2018-10-15 05:00 +Date: 2018-10-26 05:00 Category: other Tags: not-a-transition, lasers Status: draft -... \ No newline at end of file + + +I had my ninth laser session the other week (out of the ten-session package that I prepaid for), almost a year after [my first](/2017/Nov/laser-1/). (They schedule them out four to six weeks, and I rescheduled a couple of them.) I'm ... pretty underwhelmed by the results so far? My facial hair is nontrivially _thinner_ than it was before (and maybe slightly blonder [by attrition](https://www.urbana.ie/blog/can-laser-hair-removal-work-light-hair/))—it's hard to be sure of the magnitude because apparently I'm still the kind of _idiot_ who doesn't bother to take detailed "Before" photos _even after [explicitly noting this](/2017/Nov/laser-1/#anchor-before)_—but there's still a lot of it noticeably _there_. "Marking my face as male", I want to put it, but maybe that would be a misleading phrasing, because it's not as if people don't reliably and involuntarily infer my sex from my facial structure even at my cleanest-shaven. (And things are only going to get worse—despite my beautiful ponytail in the back, Trent says my hairline in the front is already a [Norwood 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Norwood_scale), and it takes all of my strength as an aspiring rationalist just to believe him.) + +I'm not sure how typical my results are and why—the [marketing literature](https://www.laseraway.com/articles/hair-removal/effective-laser-hair-removal-really/) from the clinic/parlor/salon promises permanent reduction by "up to 90 percent after 6–8 treatments", but _up to_ isn't exactly a probability distribution. Maybe I just have resilient hair; maybe I'm grimacing or grunting too much during the treatment, priming the merciful nurse–technician to hold back on the zapping more than she's supposed to; who knows?